Posted on 08/07/2016 11:37:04 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
During the Democrat’s national convention, it took until the third day before anyone got around to mentioning support for law enforcement. Police officials sharply criticized the Democratic Party for giving time for speeches to the Mothers of the Movement from Black Lives Matter, but failing to offer any time at all for the families of law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, especially those in Dallas who died protecting a BLM rally. According to the president of the largest police union, that’s no accident — and Hillary Clinton wants nothing to do with police, The Hill’s Jonathan Swan reports today:
Top officials at the biggest police union in the country are upset with Hillary Clinton, saying she snubbed them.
The leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police told The Hill that the Democrat sent a signal through her staff that she wouldn’t be seeking the union’s endorsement.
“It sends a powerful message. To be honest with you, I was disappointed and shocked,” said Chuck Canterbury, the president of the National Fraternal Order of Police.
“You would think with law enforcement issues so much in the news that even if she had disagreements with our positions, that she would’ve been willing to say that.”
Well, yes, you’d think so. In Dallas, the assassination of five police officers has produced an unprecedented round of recruiting as police chief David Brown challenged his community to stop protesting and stand watches as part of the force. Communities have rallied to police as they have come under fire — literally — from radicals bent on anarchy and destruction. There seems to be a belated realization in many communities that an effective police force is necessary, especially in the urban cores, and that pushing them into more passive stances only puts the most vulnerable citizens more at risk.
That realization hasn’t occurred to Team Hillary, apparently. The NFOP asks candidates to fill out questionnaires to allow them to determine their choice for endorsement. Donald Trump has completed his questionnaire, but they never heard back from Hillary. Instead, her staff finally responded with a “thanks but no thanks” response, making it the first such snub since John Kerry in 2004. (Barack Obama responded in both 2008 and 2012, according to Canterbury.)
Team Hillary wants to go all in with the Black Lives Matter movement, apparently, just at the moment when the movement itself seems to be contemplating its earlier strategies. Maybe that will pay off; BLM has become a sustained movement akin to Occupy, only less broad and arguably less impactful, especially since a number of assassinations of police officers have taken place. Hillary and her campaign seem to be betting that cold-shouldering cops will help build loyalty and emotional ties to the activists and their allies, which could produce a turnout similar to Obama’s in 2012 if not 2008.
As bets go, it’s not entirely irrational, but it cedes one important point. Trump has already called himself the law-and-order candidate. If Hillary chooses to go all in with BLM, that leaves the GOP wide open to embrace law enforcement at a time when civil unrest has many Americans worried — even those in cities where competent and fair law enforcement is most needed. If the GOP is paying attention, they should start messaging on this immediately, and see how well that bet works out.
Police and Firefighter Unions have always been in the pocket of the Marxocrats for, like, forever. Yet the Marxocrats and their minions have taken big dumps all over the police and firemen ongoingly all the while that they’ve been getting their votes. Even as recently as last week Trump and his supporters were screwed out of their right to attend one of his rallies in Columbus OH by a Marxocrat asshole Fire Marshall. Maybe its time for the rank and file police and firemen to tell their union leaders to eff off and loudly proclaim their support for Trump.
Crooks like Hillary rarely want to have anything to do with the police, esp. when they’re desperately seeking the votes of so many other crooks who also hate the police.
Obama has brought the anarchist movements out into the open and made them the latest democrat party victim group.
Hillary wants to ride the movement wave into the White House as if she is immune from their nihilistic mobocracy.
She wants them to help her become the queen of the American hierarchy when it is the hierarchy itself they are intent on destroying.
why any cops or SS protect her is beyond me .
have they no care for what would happen with her in the top slot?
they should
When i was 18 years old i watched the cops backs while they litterally beat the hell out of a little indian guy, i did it because i thought they just wanted to arrest him and they were my friends.
There were at least 15 other indians who could have come right through me as they did not like what was happening at all.
What was his crime? he was drunk, like most every one else.
I have known lots of cops and have some in my family,most of them are nice guys but nearly all of them have a step above every one else problem and all are self rightious.
These people do not take Government jobs to serve, they take them for the security and benifits it gives them, plus part of the authority they crave.
I am not anti cop in fact there are some that i think a hell of a lot of,i just believe they should respect the people they work for rather put them in a lower class.
Guaranteed they don’t endorse Trump
You got that right
No, we are not.
Lets be clear. The FOP is not some union with shop stewards, and pressing for bargaining rights and all the other typical jazz.
They are more like lawyers on retention, and you will most likely never need them until you one, get into a shooting, or two, your agency fires or tries to fire you over something you can contest.
I haven’t seen registration figures on police and partisanship. Are such figures available?
Don’t know, but I know hundreds of cops, and almost none of like Obama or Hillary one bit. There are those that line up along, let say, demographic affiliation, if you catch my drift.
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